George Washington was born on Feb. 22 ... for earning the badge were a lot different from today’s Purple Heart. Soldiers had to do something unusually heroic or perform some act that was ...

Doctor, Jacobite and Brigadier General, Hugh Mercer was a great friend of George Washington. He fought the English and ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are back on Broadway in the revival of Othello. As these two mega-stars make their Broadway returns, we're taking a walk down memory lane and reliving some of ...

They had captured 5,000 American soldiers and sailors in Charleston, South Carolina. Some of George Washington’s soldiers mutinied. Benjamin Franklin returned to Paris and for a time was popular.

"The world owes you nothing but an opportunity" was a favorite saying of Geneva Epps Mosley, her daughter Evelyn Plantillas ...

“The next president of the United States will only be the president of a party,” Thomas Jefferson predicted as George Washington ... that killed 13 American soldiers during the withdrawal ...

Many Pentagon materials now labeled as "DEI" were a bit more like advertisements — aimed at recruits who have shown a ...

George Washington spared a Connecticut soldier, Ebenezer Leffingwell, who was sentenced to die after fighting with a superior, the Journal of the American Revolution recounted. Leffingwell had been ...

The real concern is not personnel changes, but rather the politicization of the military justice system that occurred during ...

March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city ...